Much like animals in the real world, Pokémon are treated as unfeeling objects and used for such things as human entertainment and as subjects in experiments.

The way that Pokémon are stuffed into pokéballs is similar to how circuses chain elephants inside railroad cars and let them out only to perform confusing and often painful tricks that were taught using sharp steel-tipped bullhooks and electric shock prods.

If PETA existed in Unova, our motto would be: Pokémon are not ours to use or abuse. They exist for their own reasons. We believe that this is the message that should be sent to children.

As in previous cases of PETA picking on Nintendo, there is a strong suspicion the organisation is merely odiously attempting to generate cheap exposure for itself based on the latest release in a popular franchise.

Ah yes, the PETA. Foaming over yellow toon mouse, while at the same time killing hundreds of real dogs and cats in order to "help" them.
PETA killed 87% of the 32000 animals they "rescue" in between 1998 and 2011, because they have other priorities to spend their $37 million budget on. They rather hire some models, than search for new homes for the animals.

The reason they kill pets is because they see them as unsavable slaves to humans. Their ideas of animals and their rights is completely messed up. Don't support them and don't even go to their website. Even posting this bullshit is helping them!

There is, it's called "the right to keep and bear arms." PETA are eco-terrorists, eventually they will strike at people in thier homes, and when they do we'll have a surprise waiting for them, they have to strike out against the Japanese and video games, they already got away with stuff here in the U.S. they know if they try it again they'll lose government support and finally be branded the terrorists that they are.

I believe that in England some PETA members were arrested for harassing/threatening laboratory staff. Peta forked up though, the staff they were threatening didn't even work in the animal research division.

The hilariously funny thing is, is that if they'd even bothered to play the latest one (black and white not yet 2) they'd see that this was a theme in the game itself anyway. This is hilariously retarded.

The silly thing about this, is that you fight Ghetsis and he's obviously a terrible person (and even mentions the twist at the ned of Black and White), then at the end a slowpoke shows up and says Team Plasma is fighting for animal rights.

N was the only person who wanted rights, the "rights" were just a cover so everyone would give up their pokemon and Plasma could take over.

Lmao WEL. At some point majority of Sankaku users here were a kid playing the earlier generations of pokemon and turned out fine. I'm in University right now for fuck's sake. If the current generation doesn't know how to differentiate right from wrong then they are retarded.

He is not calling you a kid. He's trying to say while we see the propaganda clear as day. A kid is just going to connect Pokemon with the text he reads about oppression and the videos that pop up. They don't have the ability to critically analyze just yet.

The antagonist team is basically a version of PETA that uses exploits pokemon while trying to argue against it. It's more akin to someone trying to argue against cock-fighting by training a bird to cockfight.

PETA at least has its "moral highground", though not by much. I mean seriously, this is just dumb. Pikachu obviously enjoys it, and who are we to put a halt to its sadomaso tendencies?

fuck PETA, a los of animal species are in decline, in the very edge of extinction,
people like the king of spain hunt elephants, the japanese hunt whales, dog, bull, fights here and there. the destruction of whole ecosystems is killing species like the polar bear. bees are dissapearing....
...and they are worried of fictional pseudo animals? they are really messed up and need to stop using drugs, only way i can understand such a stupid idea.
How can animals be treated respectfully if organizations in their favor make a joke out of themselves. geez they should voulunteer all those guys for medical experimentation.

The polar bears are not going extinct.
It actually has an extremely fast growing population due to the territory of their prey shrinking and concentration of them therefore.
They are also wandering south and mating with their brown bear counterparts creating a new subspecies.

There is a difference between complaining about a side of an argument and admonishing the actions of said side. No one said that animal rights is wrong(except that one guy) just that the things PETA does to prove their point doesn't help.

Remember when Ash challenged the Viridian Gym. When team rocket made the battle more "challenging" by making the trainer feel what the pokemon feels when its hurt. And the fact that the some pokemon didn't choose to go with trainers but were beaten to submission first then stuck inside a pokeball. And in the manga where hyper beams didn't make a pokemon faint.. but die... :3

I see Pokemon as battle loving creatures. They seem to enjoy fighting regardless of having a trainer or not, much like regular animals. The fact that trainers pit them against each other in non-killing matches, while having top-notch medical care for their creatures seems benefitial to the species desire for combat.

Besides that point, there are plenty of people in the Pokemon universe who use them merely for companionship, or work. If anything, Pokemon have better lives than real animals.

Some of them do like it like Ash's Treecko. But most of them barely even fight. Remember Pikachus vacation. Without the trainers they get along great... And team rocket's koffing and ekans, they just love their trainers so much that they fight anyways.

Humans like violence the most. Why did humans create Pokemon, that fight each other? Why do we play war games, fighting games, action adventures etc? Even every RPG has you kill "monsters". 90% of all games have some sort of violence in them. Why do people like horror movies? Why are there even horror movies? Why are there haunted houses and stuff like that?
That's just the human nature, violence and sex, that's what we truly enjoy. We love destroying things. If god didn't give us a conscience, we would just kill each other off for the sake of killing or at least for profit.
But because of this conscience we normally don't live out our nature in real life but in games, books and other virtual media. We even make some violence to be good to silence our conscience, like destroying evil, killing "monsters", being on the "good side" in a war...

If you think about it, humans are pretty messed up creatures, aren't they?

alot of things wrong with that. For starters Horror has little to do with violence. If you think that, it may be time to find an alternative to cheap and poorly thoughtout horror movies. Try Saya no Uta. Watching someone go insane from the inside out is far scarier than violence.

Secondly, Cookie cutter good vs. evil stories are new. Thank disney for them mostly. Most of their stories where originally twisted and morally ambiguous...even if they where made for children.

Lastly, killing eachother for profit is a common trait for predatory animals. Wolves almost never die from anything other than fighting other wolves for territory. At the same time they kill other animals like bears and large cats and sneak into their dens to kill their children. It may seem bad because you hear stories about psychologically disturbed people killing others for amusement but they are few compared to the whole and are irregular(broken humans) to begin with. Humanity isn't bad where just paranoid and think so.